James A. Benn is professor of Buddhism and East Asian religions at McMaster University.
发表于2024-12-23
Burning for the Buddha 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
图书标签: 佛教 宗教 佛学 焚身供养 柳本尊 海外漢學 海外中国研究 ★Religion
Burning for the Buddha is the first book-length study of the theory and practice of "abandoning the body"(self-immolation) in Chinese Buddhism. It examines the hagiographical accounts of all those who made offerings of their own bodies and places them in historical, social, cultural, and doctrinal context. Rather than privilege the doctrinal and exegetical interpretations of the tradition, which assume the central importance of the mind and its cultivation, James Benn focuses on the ways in which the heroic ideals of the bodhisattva present in scriptural materials such as the Lotus Sutra played out in the realm of religious practice on the ground.
行文清晰,出发点美好,作者致谢Birnbaum教会他留意鲜活的人与肉体在佛教里的声音,而他自己也颇带理想意味地强调,中古佛教研究缺了身体是绝对片面的。这本该是做供奉身体的必读,可以发散性找资料,但此本的注重点在僧人与寺庙,换言之,还是权威的那一派修行者,作者没有提及同时期灵异小故事里被迫和主动对佛教献身的平民,算是缺憾。
评分一言不合就自焚
评分力荐。对于民间宗教信仰的渗透说得不够深入,略显不足。
评分一言不合就自焚
评分力荐。对于民间宗教信仰的渗透说得不够深入,略显不足。
Burning for the Buddha 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书